Philosophy Movies

A discussion between Jean Hyppolite, Georges Canguilhem, Paul Ricoeur, Michel Foucault and Alain Badiou on the subject of philosophy and truth....

Herbert Fingarette once argued that there was no reason to fear death. At 97, his own mortality began to haunt him, and he had to rethink everything.

Xan García, in search of the meaning of things, interviews 13 classmates to discuss and reflect on life. They talk about death, love,...

Is it possible to live a life without constant battle? To really understand this you have to see what your life is. Don't escape from it, just watch....

In the midst of the deepest sleep comes the awakened one.

A philosophical dream narrative, structured around conceptions and representations of the reversibility and irreversibility of time and desire. The...

The Painter encounters Death and decides to paint his portrait.

Shot during an NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) seminar in Berlin, a group fluxuates between guided meditation and discussion on consciousness and...

A burning flame, black-and-white, opens Nasos Karabelas’ “Osmosis”, a philosophical piece on life, death, loneliness and...

A philosophical film work based on the French philosopher Simone Weil's thoughts, beautifully translated into grainy 16mm footage from early...

The favourite places for thinking of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche - Sorrento, Engadine, Venice, Genoa, Rapallo, Nice, Turin - with passages...

An hour long interview with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek made by Russia Today for his 70th birthday. In this documentary...

Somewhere, a man tinkers, cooks, and smokes in silence, caught between the tranquility of an afternoon nap and the strangeness of time stretching out.

A personal essay film about the nature of artistic creation and the responsibility that comes along with it.

The period of time we find hardest to inhabit is the present; for a range of powerful reasons we should take on board.

As Tom seemingly kills his neighbor without reason, he justifies it in court by claiming he has no free will. Now, his neighbors and friends gather...

Seventeen hundred eager attendees braved a snowstorm to hear this extraordinary debate. Held at the University of Toronto in 1984 - when academics...

These last major lectures by Hans Heinz Holz (1927–2011) follow his philosophical reflection from Parmenides to Karl Marx. They were recorded...

A look at contemporary Paris through the lens of theories and ideologies of the past two centuries, with a particular focus on the utopian socialist...